(February 4, 2017 at 4:59 pm)Nihilist Virus Wrote:(February 3, 2017 at 4:40 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: Judges chapter 19 is the most disgusting book in the Bible. It's a real horror story. But it's a story about hospitality and a replay of similar ones involving Abraham and Lot.
Remember, the guy was traveling but he refused to stay in a Gentile city. He continued on until he reached an Israelite (Benjamite) town. According to the rules of hospitality in the Jewish Babylonian Talmud people should have been eager to invite him into their homes and to take care of his needs. They didn't.
Then an old man saw them and took them to his house and took care of them although they had their own supplies.
As they were having fun the thug crowd showed up (like in Lot's case) and wanted to screw the visitor. At that point the old man offered up his virgin daughter and the man's concubine. In the Jewish Babylonian Talmud a Jew may have sex with a child as long as the child is less than nine years old (Sanhedrin 54b). The crowd rapes the woman. The man finds out that she's dead and cuts her up into twelve pieces and sends them throughout all the territory of Israel.
The important thing to remember is that the guy wasn't really upset that his woman was raped. They sent her out for that purpose. He wasn't too upset that she died. He was pissed that the townspeople had violated the rules of hospitality. That was an insult against God and had to be punished.
No you're totally misinterpreting that passage and taking it out of context. I already schooled you atheist folk on another thread. Here's the proper interpretation:
I think this passage pretty much speaks for itself in that it is about our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I mean, hello, the men "Stood at the door and knocked." The concubine was raped to death, which sounds a lot like "My cup runneth over" because Jesus had to drink his "cup of suffering." The concubine (a whore) had her corpse dismembered and sent out to the 12 tribes of Israel, symbolic of how Jesus is a whore because he loves us all and then after he died his gospel was spread throughout the whole world. The Levite offering up his concubine to a viscous mob is a symbol of God offering up Jesus to a viscous mob.
Jesus stands at the door and knocks. Open the door so he might come in and rape you to death. He wants to rape you to death in a spiritual sense.
Checkmate, atheists.
That's a great joke but did you really mean to use "viscous" to describe the mob?
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/viscous
